Gaining access and providing resources to cover the war in Afghanistan is challenging, but the press must play the role of watchdog and advisor to the U.S. government, agree representatives of both press, armed services, scholars and government officials at USC Annenberg's Center on Communication Leadership & Policy's Global Communication Leadership Forum, "Obama's Afghanistan: The Media and the War."

USC Annenberg is sponsoring The Democracy Video Challenge, a global call to action celebrating democracy that launched its second annual competition

Communication professor Dmitri Williams is uncovering what makes computer games so engrossing

Neon Tommy, the student-run online news source based at USC Annenberg, released a Nov. 5 investigative article about swine flu deaths in Los Angeles County that unearthed a host of information about the illness and its victims. "In several cases, the families we spoke with said they did not know their relatives had died of swine flu until we told them," the article stated. "In these cases, county officials said the diagnoses had been made after doctors filled out the death certificates, and that it is not the county's responsibility to notify family members."

USC Annenberg's "Annenberg Agenda" magazine caught up with the Center on Communication Leadership and Policy's Cinny Kennard to talk about issues such as the role of women in communication industries and the future of journalism. "We are studying a group of media conglomerates, including some of the leading digital companies, to assess where women are on the boards of these companies and where women are in the executive management structure of the day-to-day operation of the company," Kennard said

Journalism professor Ed Cray creates 14,000-word booklet to accompany newly released high-quality Woody Guthrie recordings

USC Annenberg's award-wining television newsmagazine has been picked up by distributor Global Broadcasting to run in several countries throughout Europe

USC Annenberg and the National Arts Journalism Program are pleased to announce the results of voting for projects entered in the National Summit on Arts Journalism, held Oct. 2